iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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the lakeshore monk @thecorlew.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Friday Links is UP! Featuring @raemariz.bsky.social @jpinckney.bsky.social @taylormoore.bsky.social and MORE! www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162658821

two books, What Monsters You Make Of Them by Rachelle Cruz and Weird Fishes by Rae Mariz, on a shelf

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Arley Sorg @arleysorg.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

What are the experiences of authors of color in the publishing industry, you ask?!? Find out here - arleysorg.com/by-the-numbe... This came up a few times over the weekend, so I thought I'd repost to socials!

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By the Numbers 10 - Arley's House

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rivers solomon @riverssolomon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sweet, strange uncitizens: ONCE I WAS MADE OF EARTH is here, an epic fantasy that's been ratling in my brain for years now and that I'm putting out into the world serially outside of the capitalist publishing apparatus. Share, and read, and comment. archiveofourown.org/works/91618061

The painting "The Moment" by James Warden, with the text "Once I Was Made of Earth" on it by Rivers Solomon. The painting is in the romantic style, quite dramatic and dark in tone if not colour, with a horse rearing with fear in its eyes as a snake launches to bite it, against a back drop of pink and blue mountains.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 20/07/2026

A side project I've been working on—a curated link page of important essays on video game narrative—is now live. You can read about it on my blog: azhdarchid.com/the-game-nar... Or you can go straight to the dedicated website: www.gamenarrativereader.org

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The Game Narrative Reader, Zeroth Edition

Announcing a curated, thematic link page of important essays and articles about video game narrative.

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Our Kickstarter campaign has ended, with 346 backers pledging $17,835! Thank you all SO MUCH for donating, shouting, helping us over the finish line—it means the world 🧡

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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

You all are awesome. khōréō Year 6 is fully funded. There are 6 hours left if you still want to get in on the good stuff. I love to see projects like this get the support they deserve!

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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Wow! @khoreo.bsky.social is so close to reaching their funding goal! Thanks to everyone for sharing and supporting. Only 3 days left to bring it home! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

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khōréō: Year 6

Help us sustain and grow an award-winning magazine of speculative fiction and migration!

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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

#ScreenshotSaturday Added spring physics to make my squid guy squishy, which I find VERY satisfying. I also finished setting up the interaction components so a button press executes an action, but that's not anything you can see in the screen recording YET. Maybe next week! #gamedev #godot

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Ignyte Award-Nominated Writer/Editor LP Kindred @lpkindred.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Just a heads up! @khoreo.bsky.social is 5 days from the end of their kickstarter and the mag hasn't funded. L pointed out last month that if we want nice things, we have to communicate that via dollars. Let's retain this important magazine! khōréō Year 6 www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

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khōréō: Year 6

Help us sustain and grow an award-winning magazine of speculative fiction and migration!

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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

7 more days left for khōréō’s fundraiser. If you’re tired of me banging the drum about this, please help spread the word so I don’t have to! I’m now emotionally invested in this project getting fully funded 📢📢 It’s great to see how much support they’re getting! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

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khōréō: Year 6

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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 08/07/2026

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

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These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech

Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.

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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

khōréō mag’s fundraiser is up until July 15! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho... i gifted a special edition of my latest zine to the 50+ all-volunteer members of @khoreo.bsky.social staff. you can get a copy of your own with a generous donation to khōréō!

cover of quiet defiance zine. Bold typography: ISSUE 2: IS THIS AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS OR THE WAY I ALWAYS FEEL? surrounded by 2-color RISO printed spreads featuring text and photos and illustrations.

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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This issue is a 36-page collection of 5 personal essays reflecting on being Hawaiian in Sweden and in publishing. It includes a reprint of an essay first commissioned by @sarahgailey.bsky.social—now with cute photos of my grandparents in Hilo! stone-soup.ghost.io/feeding-futu...

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Feeding Future Ancestors | "Spam" and Rice Bowl

A Personal Canons Cookbook Feature by Rae Mariz

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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

10 days left, my dudes. If can, can.

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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

10 days left, my dudes. If can, can.

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the wicker rowan @timesnewrowan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

an all-timer of a story!!

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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

if you’re able to be generous, support this team of people who have been consistently generous with their time, skills and talents and who make sure writers, voice actors, and illustrators are compensated for their work www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

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khōréō: Year 6

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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

2 weeks left and a little over halfway to khōréō’s fundraising goal! Please support these folks! They published TWO of my unconventional Indigenous Futurisms stories, and encouraged me to make them even more weird and structurally strange www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

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khōréō: Year 6

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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Stefon on SNL: “This book has EVERYTHING… the ancient embodiment of rot, an animal-hoarding old woman, a sullen girl with a knife trapped in the woods by 5000-year-old mind-controlling tree, an irreputable wolf, a bear who lost a bet, two herds of bison, three happy endings…” #UnhingedPit #A #F #CS

Screenshot of Bill Hader playing the character of “club kid” Stefon on Saturday Night Live counting off on his fingers everything the book has in it. Over his shoulder, the book cover for They Call the Place Wild by Rae Mariz featuring a painted portrait of a young girl’s face covered in roots and framed with an ornate golden decorative border

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Sophie Whirly @sophiewhirly.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

::taps mic:: this on?? Hey friends! I'm so pleased/astonished to tell you that my short story, "Bone Harp Hair," will be published as part of Issue #52 of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet! smallbeerpress.com/lcrw/2026/06...

LCRW #52 cover art by Guilherme Nunes. In green and blue hues, with pops of pink: one cactus capybara (left) and one cactus skeleton creature (right), with spikes.

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rufus⁷ @rufuss.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

In case you, too, needed this today:

Op is novelconcepts: Hey, man, c'mere. Listen. Get in real close, this is important.
You're gonna make stuff again. You're gonna make stuff you're proud of. You're gonna make stuff you're excited to share. You're going to feel that overwhelming drive to create, not just the frantic / want to want to you're stuck in now. You're going to have awesome ideas, and you're going to make them into reality. You're going to create again.
You're still an artist. You're still a writer. You're still home to the same passion you had before. You'll find it again. It's not gone. It's just resting. Let it rest. You're going to make stuff again. I promise.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 23/06/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

What is folklore? Happy 11th birthday to #FolkloreThursday.

If history is the black and white of books, folklore is its grey voices, the bits written in blood red ink. Speaking through the filter of magic and dead spirits, folklore is where the ache for justice among the powerless lives. In it dwells the anger of a wounded land, the widow’s sorrow, the moth er’s hatred for the king who took her sons to war. It is and always has been the cultural margin sneered at by those who fear its feral power. Untameable. Eel-slippery. No empire has ever been able to control it. No amount of study will ever make it behave in a civilised, orderly fashion. Try to corner it into staying still with learning and it will bare its fangs. Leap over you Spring heeled Jack style. Self-organising. Self-evolving. Folklore has never needed academia to survive. More importantly, never needed political patronage to thrive. Give it a traveller’s fire, give it a pub or post office queue. Give it a playground. It spreads. It mutates. Standing out side of top-down power structures it is and always has been a haven for voices criticising the elite, the oppressors. It is folklore’s very nature to resist. You can’t burn the books of an oral tradition. You can’t censor the stories parents tell children when tucking them into bed. No empire has found an effective system to control tales swapped across beer glasses, across tea cups. Empires, kingdoms, republics of repression – they all always fear what cannot be enclosed and economised. Not even the Stasi, not even the Syrian Military Intelligence Directorate could call themselves the folklore police.

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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

someone already claimed the signed copy of Weird Fishes 😲 THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING KHŌRÉŌ, ANONYMOUS BENEFACTOR!

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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I donated some reward items for this khōréō kickstarter, but ensuring that this group of pros can continue to make speculative fiction from diaspora writers available in beautifully designed digital publications & free to read online & in exquisitely produced audio versions IS THE REWARD IN ITSELF!

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

Four khoreo magazine covers over an orange background.

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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I have NO IDEA what, if any, kind of game this could be. The “fun challenge” I gave myself was to not use any imported assets or keyframe animations and just see what I could do only with Godot. Play around. One “how could I do this?” puzzle leads to another… #gamedev #godot #ScreenshotSaturday

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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

i don’t understand beautiful things and crave more information

A visual depiction of posting activity of Bluesky account. Swooping swirls of magenta, bright green, and an orange crest of a wave

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

When I’m fully dissociated and I forget to put on my active listening face

A photo of a sea lion holding its head up in a way that makes it look like a bug eyed person with wild air and a frowny facd

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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

DID YOU SEE THIS??? The most beautiful cover by Misha Chernov www.mcversipellis.com for my new novella They Call the Place Wild. I can promise you it’ll be another strange one. Breadcrumbs leading you deep into the dark forest, bare feet black in the rich rotting soil. Let’s get lost!

The cover of THEY CALL THE PLACE WILD by Rae Mariz. A filigreed golden frame surrounds the portrait of a young girl covered in roots. An orange moth sits on her cheek, and one eye has been replaced with a long dark tunnel, through which a glowing white silhouette of her sister is visible

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

“Welcome to Haven, child. The folk’s final refuge in this part of the world.” 🌲🪶 Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen Books are thrilled to reveal the cover of THEY CALL THE PLACE WILD by @raemariz.bsky.social, with spectacular cover art and design by Misha Chernov 🦋👁️🐦‍⬛ Coming February 2027!

The cover of THEY CALL THE PLACE WILD: A filigreed golden frame surrounds a portrait of a young girl covered in roots. An orange moth sits on her cheek, and one eye has been replaced with a long dark tunnel, through which the glowing white silhouette of her sister is visible.

For Fans of:

Uprooted - Naomi Novik
The Overstory - Richard Powers
The River has Roots - Amal El-Mohtar
The Isle in the Silver Sea - Tasha Suri
Hemlock and Silver - T. Kingfisher

“Welcome to Haven, child. The folk’s final refuge in this part of the world.”

Two Belarusian sisters live in the shadow of the Białowieża Forest, the last of Europe’s great primeval forests. Dasha is the shadow sister, unlovable to all but her shining sister Natalya, who she will follow anywhere.

So when Natalya is spirited away across the forest, Dasha does what she has always done: follows.

Inside the forest she meets the folk, refugees of the industrialized world whose tales were once told across Europe and beyond. Displaced and sequestered in the shrinking forest, their stories have been distorted and forgotten. And now, a strange force known as the Storyteller refuses to let Dasha go, stealing her inner voice and weaving her into the world’s tales. Dasha’s only hope of escape is to reclaim her lost voice and forge her own story.

Dasha hesitated. She stared into the huge raven’s black beady eye, a dark pool rimmed with grey pebbles, until she could name what she saw inside it.
“Wisdom and kindness,” she said aloud. “I almost didn’t know how to recognize it.”
She ran her hand along the glossy feathers of his neck, then swung one thin leg across his back. The moment he spread his great wings and lifted them into the air was the first time she was aware that, if she were ever to leave the woods again, she would be a girl with a story that could never be told.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 10/06/2026

This book is beautiful - I read an early draft and knew it was special. Can't wait to read a final version

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

One of the rarest animal sightings in the world: chirodectes maculatus, only seen once before. Original post

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

You never know what you'll discover in the forest...or what will discover you 🦋👁️🐦‍⬛ Experience a surreal new fairytale brimming with strange sisters, trickster spirits, and a primeval forest that never lets you go 🌀🌲 the full cover of THEY CALL THE PLACE WILD by @raemariz.bsky.social drops tomorrow!

A swarm of moths cover a book lying on the forest floor. A single eye and the gold text "They Call the Place Wild - Rae Mariz" are visible through the gaps in the moths' wings.

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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I’m like this with wolves. And the word “parabola”? Every. Single. Book.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Love this news but hate the "surprise comeback" framing. Teams around the globe worked incredibly hard to protect & expand mangrove forests & it worked! Please just say, "We tried and we succeeded! Go team Earth!" We must admit our victories to give people the heart to keep trying! #ShareGoodNewsToo

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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Reposting this again in celebration 🎉 I made it because someone posted somewhere that the pattern (by Yu Jie with permission from original creator KC Green) was "difficult, nearly impossible" and I was like "give it here." 🧶

intarsia knit swatch of "This is Fine" meme by KC Green. Dog sits on chair with a cup of coffee on table while room is consumed by yellow flames.

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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I can’t tell you how much comfort I get knowing Ted Chiang is still out here patiently explaining the reality of AI “technology”—scare quotes because I use the definition “applied knowledge and tools to solve problems and improve human life” and what they’re peddling as AI does none of these things

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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Don't be an object of pity and scorn. Read some of these gorgeous books by Pacific Islander authors recommended by @buzzfeed.com Weird Fishes made the list as the lone sci-fi title 🐙🦭❤️🌊🪼 www.buzzfeed.com/morgansloss1...

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If You Haven't Read Any Of These Books By Pacific Islander Authors, I Feel Sorry For You

Diversify your TBR. 👏

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Christopher Cartwright @chriscartwright.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This is our extraordinary 🌎 Fantastic drone capture of a few beautiful Risso dolphins Juan Morales for the footage...bravo Why are we destroying our oceans? pollution ,over fishing , etc #WarOnNature #Metacrisis

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Rockstar management fired 30+ people to try to prevent this and still failed.

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